Tag: imprisonment

An Egyptian court sentenced a Lebanese tourist, Mona el-Mazbouh, to eight years in prison last week for insulting Egyptians in a video she posted on Facebook last May, state media reported. E-Mazbouh, 24, posted the 10-minute…

An Osun State High Court, sitting in Osogbo, has sentenced four persons, inclusive of an octogenarian herbalist, to death by hanging for murder. The convicts are Pa. Oluwafemi Fagbemi, 102, the octogenarian, Tobi Ojo, Famutuwa…

For stealing just two packets of Maggi cubes, a 30-year-old bricklayer Jeopardy John, on Thursday sentenced to three months imprisonment by a Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja. The accused pleaded guilty to a three-count charge bordering on…

The year 2015 marked the highest number of deaths and injuries among West Bank Palestinians by Israeli forces in a decade, a United Nations report has said. Israeli casualties – soldiers, civilians and settlers –…